Woodville

Cadw's description

Location

The southernmost of a pair of houses immediately adjacent to the Town Walls, and set well back on the NW side of Upper Gate Street.

History

Probabaly mid C19. Woodville and Bodhyfryd are shown as a single house on the 1889 Ordnance Survey. Said to have been a stationmaster's house from Menai Bridge, re-erected here on land owned by the railway directly above the tunnel beneath the town wall.

Exterior

Belongs to a group of Bodhyfryd and Woodville.

A pair of early prefabricated houses of pitch-pine boarded panels on a low rendered plinth, and slate roof on overhanging boarded eaves. It is composed of 2 parallel 2-storey ranges with 2 roughcast stacks in the central valley. Entrances are in the side walls, effectively creating a pair of back-to-back dwellings. Bodhyfryd on the N side has a 1-storey gabled porch with replacement door in the side wall and 2 replacement windows in the gable end. To the R of the porch is a 4-pane horned sash window in the upper storey and small-pane window below. Woodville has a half-glazed lean-to porch with panel door. On its L side is an enlarged window and above it a 4-pane hornless sash window. The 2-window double-gabled E end has hornless sash windows, 18-pane in the lower storey 9-pane to the 1st floor.

On the W side, close to the town wall, is a narrower 2-storey gabled wing of similar materials. To Woodville it has a boarded door under a bracketed gable canopy, enlarged window to the L and 1st-floor 4-pane hornless sash window.

Interior

Not inspected, but Bodhyfryd recorded as having 4-panel doors, fireplace in rear ground floor room with oval patera and small contemporary fireplaces in first floor rooms.

Reason for designation

Listed with Woodville as a rare early example of a prefabricated house, retaining original character and detail, and for its contribution to the historical townscape.